Bag or receptacle for storing and preserving furs, articles of wearing apparel or the like



M. KRANTZ BAG OR RECEPTACLE FOR STORING AND PRESERVIhG FURS ARTICLES 0F WEARING APPAREL, OR THE LIKE April 16, 1929.

Filed May 9, 1925" ftlrenitot Patented Apr. 16, 1929.

UNITED MAURISE KRANTZ, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BAG OR BEOEPTACLE FOR STORING AND ZPRESERVING FURS, ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL OR THE LIKE. v

Application filed. May 9, 1925, Serial N'o. 29,197, and in Great Britain June 17, 1924.

This invention relates to an improved bag or receptacle for storing and preserving furs,

articles of wearing apparel or the like, andit has for its object to provide an improved bag or container in which articles may be stored or protected from moths or other insects, damp or injurious climatic conditions. I

A bag or receptacle according to this invention comprises a body formed of flexible waterproof and air-proof material.

I am aware that bags for holding mail have been proposed in which the mouth of the bag has been provided with rigid bodies hinged together and adapted to more or less form a square when the bag is opened, screws or other means being provided whereby the strips may be clamped together when the bag is closed.

I am further aware that in order to secure an airtight closure at the mouth of a bag for mail or other purposes, it has been proposed to employ metal frames, one of which is channelled to contain a strip of rubber which, when the bag is closed, is pressed against the other frame to seal the bag.

According to the present invention there is provided on the faces of the strips, rubber or other elastic material by which when the bag is closed a continuous rubber to rubber or like contact is secured around the mouth of the bag, forming an airtight and dampproof joint.

The strips may be drawn together in the known manner by means of thumb screws, clips or other suitable devices. Provision is made within the bag for hanging the articles, a hook or other device being provided upon the exterior of the bag for hanging in a wardrobe or other place.

In order that the invention may be the better understood, drawings are appended in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of a bag according to this invention; I

Fig. 2 is a plan showing the upper end of the bag closed; v

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line AA, Fig. 1;

Fig. A is a vertical section on line BB, Fig. 2.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, a indicates the bag which may be made of india rubber, rubberproofed fabric, oiled silk or other material impervious to air and moisture.

Secured in any suitable manner, to the -mouth of the bag are four strips or lengths posed in pairs parallel to each other to close A the bag as shown in full lines in the said figure. w

The strips are applied outside the material and when the bag is closed the strips of each pair are pressed tightly together by means of the thumbscrews c, the material of which the bag is formed, which in the example illustrated is assumed to be india-rubber, being sufficiently resilient to form an air-tight joint.

Alternatively where the material employed is not of a resilient naturea pad or cushion of rubber or the like, is provided, upon the contacting surfaces of rigid members at the mouth of the bag. v

The furs, garments or the like are supported within the bag in any suitable manner.

Thus for example a hook d may be provided from which a clothes hanger or the like may be suspended.

Preferably, in order tosecure immunity from insect pests, a suitable insecticide may be placed in the bag.

What I claim is: V

A bag for storing and preserving furs, articles of wearing apparel and the like, comprising in combination a flexible, damp and air-proof rubber body material having an opening, four hingedly connected fiat strips of rigid material of substantially the same length and applied to the said opening against the border of the air proof rubber body material itself, means for pressing the four fiat strips in such a manner that two of the strips are in line with each other and are pressed with one half of theborder of the rubber air-proof body material against the two other'strips lined with the other half of the border of the rubber air-proof body material and which are also in line with each other and so that two hinges covered with the rubber like material come opposite each other thus forming a continuous rubber to rubber contact, extending also to the hinges, with the air-proof body material itself.

Signed in London, England, this 20th day of April, 1925. Y

MAURISE KRANTZ. 

